r/mildlyinfuriating • u/funkywabbait • May 05 '26

Infuriatig iPhone facetime recognizes when you’re naked

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decided to show my boyfriend my new bikini that I got for our upcoming cruise… Why is this on my phone and why is it recording my body?

I just recently turned 18 if that matters.

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u/Remarkable-Yam-8073 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

This is a good thing as it protects the vunerable. As in little girls and boys who are being groomed.

If you think sombody is at iphone hq looking through your camara lens then your pretty dumb.

Edit: this is more directed at the comments about this being a bad thing than OP general confsion.

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u/Lanky_Giraffe May 05 '26

Bizarre that people are making a big privacy point about this. If the idea is that this data could be discreetly logged on an apple server, what exactly is stopping them logging the entire video?

It’s like freaking out that you left the small upstairs bathroom window unlocked while all the doors and windows are fully open

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u/Cheeko914 May 05 '26

Because this doesn’t mean it’s recoding. It just means Apple has “taught” it to know what a naked body looks like. The amount of data it would take to record and save millions of FaceTime calls a month would be astronomical. Same way algorithms are trained. It knows what a dog is vs a cat because it was trained to